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Choice Bits

Hey Andy, did you hear about this one?

A few selected sips from the Twitter stream.

What’s Hot

Top-Ten lists are passé—ours goes to 11.
These are the top titles that folks are interested in currently,
along with their rank from last month. This is based solely on direct
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Agile Web Development with Rails

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HTML5 and CSS3

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SQL Antipatterns

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The RSpec Book

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iPad Programming

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Hello, Android

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The Agile Samurai

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Test-Drive ASP.NET MVC

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Seven Languages in Seven Weeks

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Programming Ruby 1.9

Good to Know

The incomparable wisdom of the tweet.

Counting packets is the new counting cycles.
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@mtnygard

One snapshot of a code base doesn't tell you much. Two snapshots and you have a vector. Three or more and you have trends.
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@mfeathers

Safely made it to Bedford, IN. Let the good times roll!
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@squarepegsys

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Hiring advice from the AP Stylebook.

Illegal immigrant is the preferred term for someone who has entered the country illegally. Do not use an illegal.
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@APStylebook

Best thing about coffeescript: You will not be shot on sight if you don't use CamelCase.
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@burkelibbey

When “Anna Chapman” bought her untraceable cellphone on Saturday, she gave a false name, and the address “99 Fake Street.” #TooGoodToBeTrue
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@maddow

As appropriate as it may seem, references to the game "Frogger" have no place in pedestrian death stories.
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@FakeAPStylebook

The Horror

Using a modified version of the kind of spectral imaging technology developed for the military and for monitoring agriculture, research scientists have reconstructed the long-lost first draft of K&R (&L).

Playing the game of Tetris that is my email inbox and losing. They're coming in faster than I can make them disappear!
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@ginatrapani

It’s amazing how burpy you can get after a trip to the dentist. So much air swallowed!
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@petdance